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Help[Surname] italian surname ZAMPANO's meaning (Modified)
(I thought you didn't understand
that i questioned last time...
so i modified the question and post up again.)
I was looking for the
meaning of ITALIAN surname
'ZAMPANO',
and i think this surname is exist,
not a fiction..
I thought, this surname is
maybe is similar to
surname 'ZUMPANO', and
that's ITALIAN surname, too.
(that surname is based from
Slavic zupan ‘leader’, ‘chief’, ‘headman’.
and i found this information for 'ancestry'..)
does anybody know
what 'ZAMPANO' means and
respond this question, please?
that i questioned last time...
so i modified the question and post up again.)
I was looking for the
meaning of ITALIAN surname
'ZAMPANO',
and i think this surname is exist,
not a fiction..
I thought, this surname is
maybe is similar to
surname 'ZUMPANO', and
that's ITALIAN surname, too.
(that surname is based from
Slavic zupan ‘leader’, ‘chief’, ‘headman’.
and i found this information for 'ancestry'..)
does anybody know
what 'ZAMPANO' means and
respond this question, please?
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Zumpano in Italy is a calabrian surname and also the name of a village near Cosenza in Northern Calabria region. Zampano appears near Naples. this second surname could be a variant of Zumpano. The origin of the name of the village, Zumpano is not clear.
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Well, I can't find any credible information about Zampano's meaning. I did find it as a word on Wiktionary but I doubt it has the same etymology as the surname.
So, in that sense, it could be related Zumpano or it could not. Since there's little information about Zampano, one could just take an educated guess, I suppose. We just got to wait and see if someone with a lot of knowledge about Italian surnames steps in to try to find out the etymology.
So, in that sense, it could be related Zumpano or it could not. Since there's little information about Zampano, one could just take an educated guess, I suppose. We just got to wait and see if someone with a lot of knowledge about Italian surnames steps in to try to find out the etymology.
This message was edited 7/12/2015, 4:12 PM
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Yes, the name does exist. The family is from Messercola in Campania. There are also Zampanos all over the world.
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Yes the name does exist. My family immigrated to USA in the early 1900’s from Caserta, Italy
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Yes, the name does exist. The family is from Messercola in Campania. There are also Zampanos all over the world.
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I’m doing some research regarding our families surname and came across this thread. My family immigrated from Sicily in the late 1800’s, and settled in Connecticut. My great grandfather then chased the coal boom to Scranton, PA where we still reside. From what I understand, many changes happened at Ellis Island regarding names in the registry upon immigration. I would suspect we are actually Zumpanos, as the name Zampano doesn’t seem to appear in any texts prior to the early-mid 1800’s.
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Steven, Thank you for your research! My grandfather was Dominick Zampano. When he arrived from Palermo Sicely. The oldest son of 6 siblings settled in Palermo's eastern suburb of Santo Isadore. When grandfather reached Ellis Island in 1918 they changed his name to Zampani.uy
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. . . When arriving in NY, they settled in Bensonhurst and Bath Beach Bklyn.
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